Samuel yeatman



(Nov Model.)

S.YEATMAN PEG CUTTER.

No. 291,460. V Patented Jan. 1,1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL YEATMAN, or MARIETTA, GEORGIA.

PEG-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,460, dated January 1, 1884.

(No model.)

To wZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known .that I, SAMUEL YEATMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marietta, in the county of Cobb and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Peg Gutters and Rasps,

' of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to peg-floats; and the object I have in view is to provide a ready and effective mode of attaching or detaching the handle to or from the head, whereby various heads of different kinds may be used with the same handle without the addition of any extraneous device whatever being attached either to the head or handle, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 represent perspective views, and Fig. 3 a cross-section, of my invention.

In the figures, A represents an ordinary curved handlesuch as is used with such instrumentswith a hand-piece, d. That end of the handle which connects with the head is made ina tapering form, with dovetailed or beveled sides.

B and B represent two heads, which are used for different purposes--one, B, being used as a rasp for metal nails, while the other, B, is intended for cutting out wooden pegs. The upper sides of these heads are provided with tapering dovetailed grooves adapted to receive the end of the handle. The'head B is rounded at its ends, and is provided on its under side with serrations so formed that their edges will out going forward, but not backward, as is usually the case. This head is used for destroying or removing the ends of 0 metal nails. The head B has asquare cutting front edge, a, which is provided at each side with a flange, as w. This edge is intended for the purpose of cutting off the ends of wooden pegs of the boot or shoe, and the flanges serve to prevent the knife or cutting-edge from cutting the adjacent leather.

It will readily be perceived that, as the rasping or cutting is done byaforward movement of the instrument, the handle will be only the more tightly wedged and held .in the clovetailed groove in the head during the operation of removing the pegs.

One head may be quickly removed from the head by drawing or driving the handle back from it, and another substituted.

I may use a variety of heads constructed differently on their bottoms and for coarse or fine work.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A peg-float consisting of a suitable head provided with a dovetailed groove on its upper side, in combination with a handle provided with a dovetail shank adapted to fit in the groove in the head, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL YEATMAN. 

